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To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or co…

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; fre…

Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova…

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

The European bunting.

The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.

A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

- (/). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at…

A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out…

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment o…

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to r…

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror…

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".